STICK-IN-THE-MUDS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

stick-in-the-muds

noun

plural of stick-in-the-mud

as in conservatives

a person with old-fashioned ideas the committee is dominated by old stick-in-the-muds who have little interest in bringing new ideas to the table

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His conservatives and their grand coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), would have to agree on his successor, no easy feat.

— Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
The student is one of several conservatives who count themselves among Fisher’s friends.

— Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of conservatives

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The Colombian military veterans had been hired as security contractors by the Doral-area firm Counter Terrorist Unit and its affiliate, Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy, collectively known as CTU.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
Some of the funds would go to support specific groups, including veterans, farmworkers and Native American tribes.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

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Pursuing her ongoing search for visual harmony, Ransom looked to ammonite fossils and the effects of water on their surfaces, using sapphires to mimic droplets.

— Virginia Corneli, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
Dental thermometry Paleontologists have long argued about dinosaur physiology based on indirect evidence like bone microstructure, growth rates, and where fossils turn up on the map.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of fossils

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